Spraining a foot versus an ankle

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Three MDs argued about whether it was broken? WTF?
Elevate and Ibuprofen. Keeping off of it and keeping it elevated is key.
Kiss it a bunch as well.

One saw something "suspicious". The other two didn't see any signs of a break.

This made me do a bunch of lisfranc research right away because I know those injuries are extremely hard to detect from xray.

[Freak Out]

Three MDs argued about whether it was broken? WTF?
Elevate and Ibuprofen. Keeping off of it and keeping it elevated is key.
Kiss it a bunch as well.

One saw something "suspicious". The other two didn't see any signs of a break.

This made me do a bunch of lisfranc research right away because I know those injuries are extremely hard to detect from xray.

Ankles are a bitch when they get tweaked. I had what looked like a fracture and it was "only" a bad sprain. Took months before it was close to normal again.
Be her slave and keep her off her feet for a few days.

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doesn't the swelling have to go down from them to get a good look

if theres any swelling

i'd take her back in a few days, if its still sore, and the swellings gone down

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Girlfriend is very, very sore. She seems very miserable and like she is having one heck of a time. I feel very bad for her, and hope that she gets better soon. From the sound of it and reading up on webmd, it seems like she has a pretty severe sprain and that it will take quite a bit longer to heel than a sprained ankle.

Did they X-Ray it? My daughter is a pretty tough kid, she has broken her finger and tore her MCL playing basketball and both times she never flinched and kept playing. She got her leg stepped on mid shin while someone else was stepping on her foot pushing her over in basketball and she cried for 5 hours straight. I took her to "Urgent Care" which sounds like the same thing as "University Health". Basically they are Doctors but they are interns with usually a resident looking over their shoulder. The best bet os to take her to a specialist, I took my daughter to a podiatric surgeon and he explained everything in gory detail and fixed her right up. Basically whenever the ankle or foot is involved, there are a shitload of tendons in there and when you stretch, tear or break any one of them, it's going to hurt like hell. My daughter also complained about throbbing and at first I thought she broke it to.

Let's be clear. A specialist is usually reserved for a specialty involving a M.D. A podiatric surgeon is not an M.D. Podiatrists are D.P.M.

Podiatrists upon graduating do a residency in either Podiatric Med or Surgery..so there really isn't a specialty.

M.D.'s go to a residency in their field, but if they want to become specialists, like neuro radiology go thru a fellowship.

As for "university health"..i have never heard this term. Please elaborate. I have heard of universal healthcare and certainly urgent care. the only time I have heard university health would be in relation to a university's student health organization.

[oregonpackfan]

My oldest daughter had a severe ankle sprain playing soccer in the summer before her junior year in high school. At the time of the injury, her soccer coach called it "The worst sprain I have ever seen in my life!"

Despite being X-rayed and entering a physical therapy program, she was not healed and missed the entire soccer season. It all likelihood she would have been the starting midfielder on a team that was ranked in the top 5 in the state and played in the state championship game.

She decided to skip basketball season to be ready for the spring season of softball all while continuing her physical therapy. In softball, she found she still had difficulty moving laterally and had difficulty rounding the bases. This is a girl who, as a sophomore, led the team in stolen bases.

We went to 2 more orthopedic surgeons. They all said that they could do surgery but the chances of restoring the athletic use of her ankle was "50-50 at best." She also tried a physical therapy sports specialist program with no success.

She did not play sports her senior year as she still had difficulty with lateral movement.

Now 19, she can jog about 3 X a week. Once in awhile, she tries playing a pickup game of basketball but is in severe pain the next day.

All this was from a "sprained ankle" at age 16. The adage of "A sprain is often worse that a break" was certainly true for my daughter.